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. 2016 Mar 1;14:35. doi: 10.1186/s12955-016-0438-2

Table 3.

Correlation Between dEQ-5D Utility Score (y) and dNRS Δ (x) by Causal Disease

n Slope (β) Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) p
Overall 710 −0.045 0.531 <0.0001
Major the causal disease of pain (multiple allowed)
 Osteoarthritis 182 −0.044 0.542 <0.0001
 Lumbago 285 −0.042 0.457 <0.0001
 Rheumatoid arthritis 29 −0.037 0.498 0.0060
 Neck, shoulder and arm syndrome 44 −0.046 0.552 0.0001
 Postherpetic neuralgia 54 −0.037 0.468 0.0004
 Periarthritis scapulohumeralis 46 −0.057 0.619 <0.0001
 Spinal stenosis 61 −0.041 0.660 <0.0001
 Disk herniation 30 −0.057 0.698 <0.0001
 Others 233 −0.046 0.601 <0.0001

dEQ-5D denotes change in EuroQol-5D, dNRS change in numeric rating scale